News

2024

Zoe Yan named to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering

October 31, 2024

Zoe Yan


Cheng Chin elected as the Academician of Academic Sinica

August 13, 2024

Professor Cheng Chin


Three PSD faculty named as Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Investigators

August 5, 2024

Biohub Chicago Investigators


First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT

July 16, 2024


Mark Chantell Recognized in UChicago Science as Art Contest

May 16, 2024


Bonnie Fleming elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 29, 2024


Aleksandra Walczak wins prestigious Silver Medal from CNRS

March 19, 2024

Aleksandra Walczak portrait


Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect

February 14, 2024

Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose a self-organizing model of connectivity that applies across a wide range of organisms and potentially other types of networks as well.

Story by Matt Wood, Assistant Director of Communications, Biological Sciences Division 


2023

Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

December 21, 2023

Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."


Dr. Katrina Miller awarded National Academies Award for Science Communications

November 15, 2023

Katrina Miller

Recent graduate Katrina Miller currently writes for the NYTimes. 


Takumi Matsuzawa Featured in Nature Physics

August 15, 2023

Controlled turbulence

Nature Physics journal features a cover image by Physics student Takumi Matsuzawa of IrvineLab.

Volume 19 Issue 8, August 2023


Professor Zoe Yan named 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists laureate

August 10, 2023

Professor Zoe Yan


Biophysicists from the Department of Physics and James Franck Institute Make Discovery

July 21, 2023

Image of cells (membranes stained white and nuclei stained magenta)


John B. Goodenough, Nobel-winning creator of the lithium-ion battery, dies at 100

June 27, 2023


Save the date, July 14, 2023, for the APS Historic Site Dedication to honor Stagg Field and Pile A

June 22, 2023